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Webster 1913 Edition
Bespawl
Be-spawl′
,Verb.
T.
To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle.
[Obs.]
Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bespawl
BESPAWL'
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
bespawl
bespawl
English
Verb
bespawl (third-person singular simple present bespawls, present participle bespawling, simple past and past participle bespawled)
- (transitive) To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle.
- 1885, United States Congress, Congressional edition:
- [...] as workwomen could use the respirators only by turns, and besides they had an aversion to apply to their mouths an object which was bespawled by others, [...]
- 1885, United States Congress, Congressional edition: